I am running lmdx and things are great. I work in a environment where I have have to mount smb shares. In thunar, hit ctrl-l and type smb://path/to/share and all it good. What I can't figure out is what is happening in the background. I want to know more about what is going on under the covers and most importantly, I want to know how to get to the mounted shares from the terminal.
I know in gnome, the shares were mounted in .gvfs in home dir but that does not seem to be what is going on here.
Basically I would like 2 bits of info.
1. what is going on behind the scenes when I mount these drives? (link to explanations is fine)
2. where on the local file system are things getting mounted? (terminal access is important to me)
Sorry if this is elementary. I just wasn't finding anything in all my searches.
oznah
mounting cifs/smb in thunar... where are the files?
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mounting cifs/smb in thunar... where are the files?
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Re: mounting cifs/smb in thunar... where are the files?
First, Debian based mint needs a little work for samba to work on both the server and the client side so let's see if we can fix things on the client side:
Install the following package:
Then add yourself to the fuse group:
Logout and login again for the group membership to take affect.
Now when you do the smb://path/to/share it should mount it to $HOME/.gvfs just as it did in Gnome.
Install the following package:
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sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse
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sudo gpasswd -a hanzo34 fuse
Now when you do the smb://path/to/share it should mount it to $HOME/.gvfs just as it did in Gnome.
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Re: mounting cifs/smb in thunar... where are the files?
That did the trick. I guess I need to learn what is going on with gvfs-fuse.
Now I am seeing the mount in $HOME/.gvfs
Now I am seeing the mount in $HOME/.gvfs
Re: mounting cifs/smb in thunar... where are the files?
You may want to use 'Gigolo' and put a launcher in the panel if you don't always mount in every session
I do, and have a bookmark in thunar's side-panel (only shows after mount in Gigolo first)
P.S. use the preferences to get to mount how you want.
J.Jay
I do, and have a bookmark in thunar's side-panel (only shows after mount in Gigolo first)
P.S. use the preferences to get to mount how you want.
J.Jay